How do I download my photos from the cloud to my phone?

I backed up my phone to my laptop but my photos did not download. My Cloud has exceeded its storage but I want the photos on my own storage on my computer.

Windows, Windows 6

Posted on Oct 1, 2023 01:41 PM

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Posted on Oct 1, 2023 01:47 PM

Well, reading between the lines and trying to figure out missing information, I will guess you have elected to store photos in iCloud Photos. (If that’s true, then a backup is completely irrelevant.)


You may get those photos on your iPhone by doing Settings > Photos > iCloud Photos = “on”.


If you exceeded your iCloud storage, you may well have lost some material.

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Oct 1, 2023 01:47 PM in response to Ginger825

Well, reading between the lines and trying to figure out missing information, I will guess you have elected to store photos in iCloud Photos. (If that’s true, then a backup is completely irrelevant.)


You may get those photos on your iPhone by doing Settings > Photos > iCloud Photos = “on”.


If you exceeded your iCloud storage, you may well have lost some material.

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